Absolute Whitehead torsion

DOI10.2140/GT.2007.11.215MaRDI QIDQ873943zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Korzeniewski

Publication date 21 March 2007

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502349

zbMATH Keywords

dualityabsolute Whitehead torsionsigned complexesPoincaré-complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Abstract: We refine the Whitehead torsion of a chain equivalence of finite chain complexes in an additive category $$ from an element of $$ to an element of the absolute group $$. We apply this invariant to symmetric Poincar'e complexes and identify it in terms of more traditional invariants. In the companion paper [1] (joint with Ian Hambleton and Andrew Ranicki) this new invariant is applied to obtain the multiplicativity of the signature of fibre bundles mod 4.

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